Great Things Quotes - Page 14

• It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Humble, Humility, Lows

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• To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than this thought. Man is not on Earth merely to be happy, nor even simply to be honest. He is here to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility, and to surmount the vulgarity of nearly every individual.

  Ernest Renan

  Religious, Sacrifice, Men

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• If you cannot be great, be willing to serve God in that which is small. If you cannot do great things for Him, cheerfully do little ones. If you cannot be an Aaron to serve at the altar, or a Moses to guide the tribes, consent to be "a little maid" to Xaaman the Syrian, for the honor of God's prophets, or a little child, for Christ's sake, to be set by Him in the midst of the people, as an illustration of the sweetness of humility.

  Samuel Francis Smith

  Children, Humility, Illustration

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 123, 1895.

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• Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Photographer, Remember

  "An Interview with Martin Parr – “Boundaries Merely Exist in People's Minds” (2007)". Interview with Maarten Dings, Joachim Naudts, www.americansuburbx.com. May 17, 2010.

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• The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit. So as long as there's a chance that maybe I can hammer out a little justice now and then, or a little opportunity here and there, I intend to do as I always have -- keep swinging.

  Hank Aaron

  Running, Home, Opportunity

  Hank Aaron (2009). “I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• To a female superhero her sexiness is not the most important thing about her, it's her mind, her spirit, and when I look at that character that to me is an example of characters that I like to play and I think it does a great thing for women.

  Jessica Chastain

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• The great thing about knowing you're wrong is the moment you realize it, you're right.

  Vanna Bonta

  Knowing, Realizing, Moments

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• Every person has unique gifts, and those gifts give him or her the power and the opportunity to accomplish great things, if he or she learns how to use those gifts and channel them in the right direction.

  Zig Ziglar

  Unique, Opportunity, Giving

  Zig Ziglar, Tom Ziglar (2012). “Born to Win: Find Your Success Code”, p.26, AudioInk

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• The great thing about acting is the longer you do it, the more you realize that all those realities are inside you. No matter how crazy they are, you can pretend that they are a part of you. The great thing about this job is you get to play with every aspect of your id and who you are.

  Matthew Lillard

  Jobs, Crazy, Reality

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas.

  Abi Morgan

  Thinking, Ideas, Theatre

  Source: collider.com

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• I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.

  Amiri Baraka

  Stupid, America, People

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• When you get up in the morning and know you're doing something you love, feel fit and look after yourself, it's just a great thing to do.

  Jermain Defoe

  Morning, Looks, Fit

  "Tottenham's Jermain Defoe eyes 'great feeling' of being just 19th man to score 20 goals for England" by Martin Lipton, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2013.

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• You and your oven are capable of great things,Remember, no two ovens are the same.

  Elton John

  Two, Remember, Ovens

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• Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they are only kept up by expression, tone of voice, and style of delivery.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Expression, Voice, Style

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• The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each side. So you had a strict boundary, and that was something I'd grown up with as well. Also, you were able to have different moods on each side, which was nice.

  Kate Bush

  Nice, Cutting, Different

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2011.

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• High politic is only common sense applied to great things.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Common Sense, Politics

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• The great thing about music is that whatever you're into, you see new possibilities.

  Julia Gillard

  Possibility, Music Is, New Possibilities

  "Julia Gillard: 20 people, 20 questions". www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2013.

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• One of the great things about Ben & Jerry's for me is that not only is it delicious, but I get it for free.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Jerry, Delicious

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• No, one of the great things about my three-year deal is that it's year-round. They've offered me an opportunity to cover a lot of things in the offseason, too.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Opportunity, Years, Three

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• I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing.

  Kenny G

  Golf, Playing Golf

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I felt like I could be a good example that you don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things. In fact, I truly believe that a lot of people who do great things, many of them have come from harder backgrounds.

  Sara McMann

  Believe, Doors, Order

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• Everything you do is so personal. In the end, it doesn't matter so much if you write about your own life or not. It's going to be as much artifice when it comes out as a piece of music. Everything is in character in a way. But that's a great thing.

  Jenny Hval

  Writing, Character, Pieces

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• When I think of the flag.... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of blood to vindicate those rights, and then, in the corner, a prediction of the blue serene into which every nation may swim which stands for these great things.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Thinking, Rights, Blue

  Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1926). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

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• The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative, as it's always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Strong, Powerful, America

  "Fashion Spotlight: Jean Paul Gaultier" by Anne Slowey, www.elle.com. January 21, 2010.

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• It's always just a great thing to see your kids connecting and you see the different stages.

  Christine Taylor

  Kids, Different, Stage

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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